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- In the short-term, teens who attended youth clubs regularly were less likely to truant from school, less likely to drink alcohol, more likely to have good health, and more likely to want to go to university.
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Mar 14, 2024 · The review provides evidence showing that youth activities have beneficial impacts for young people across a range of personal, social, educational, and economic outcomes; Youth provision and life outcomes: A study of the local impact of youth clubs sought to expand understanding of how changes in local youth provision have shaped outcomes for ...
- What Young People Want
- The Benefits For Young People
- The Need For The Long Term Approach
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Two quotes from the Guardian last year sum up the ambivalent attitude of a community to its young people. Communities on the one hand feel threatened and on the other the need to provide something. Young people are often both excluded from community discourses and seen as the problem in communities (Brent, 1997). However, they depend more than adul...
So if involvement is a ‘good thing’ what benefits do young people derive? Popular theories on adolescence agree that it is a time when peer group influence is of crucial importance. Acceptance of peer culture expands social horizons, helps personality development and encourages the ability to act independently and try out new roles (Cotterell, 1996...
There is much discussion about the importance of youth workers’ relationships with young people but developing good relationships takes time and needs continuity. Richardson (1997) stresses this as the most crucial aspect of the work but also the least quantifiable. Jells (1999) argues that recent concentration on short term funding has meant that ...
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Mar 4, 2024 · Youth clubs improve teens health, wellbeing and education. And new research shows that the impact lasts into adult-hood. The number of young people who take part in youth clubs each week has increased over time and its good for their physical health and wellbeing, behaviour and education.
Mar 9, 2024 · Newly published ‘Youth Evidence Base’ research shows just how important access to activities beyond the school gates can be for young people – but also that the youth sector faces some unprecedent challenges. Spending by local authorities on youth services since the early 2010s has plummeted.
Aug 22, 2024 · But in the past 14 years more than 1,200 youth clubs have closed, leaving a threadbare service. UK Youth, a charity, reckons that millions of young people in Britain still attend youth clubs.
Feb 29, 2024 · During the period 2011 to 2021, funding of youth provision has declined in real terms from £1,058.2m in 2011 to £408.5m in 2021, and the number of youth clubs operating in local authorities...
May 26, 2020 · Youth clubs were identified as the most needed service, followed by targeted support around crime. This suggests universal youth work and other group activity is seen as the most appropriate response to young people’s needs.
